TOMI CH4: Blue Screen of Death

I downloaded the latest chapter of TMI a few days ago, but I've been having this really odd problem with it. Here's what happened:

The first time I ran the game I got to the menu just fine, and proceeded to turn the detail down a bit (I have a pretty old system). I set the screen res to the native res of my panel (1680x1050) and turned the detail level down to around 3. This is where the problems began.

I restarted the game, the company logos displayed, I then get the familiar swoosh through the jungle, the menu very briefly appears and then the whole machine will BSOD as follows:

On restarting Windows will give me the following error screen when interrogated for more detail:

This has happened every time I've attempted to run the game, and a bit of forum skimming turned up another post where someone was saying that Detail Level 3 was doing something strange. I am already running the latest drivers and have already tried re-installing the game and still get the BSOD problem on the first run. I even tried deleting the prefs.prop file in the hope that the game would run with the default values, but no dice (it still ran at 1680x1050 when first starting, leading me to believe it had remembered the old settings).

Is there any way of manually editing the configuration file to get things back to their default value and then work from there?

I'm afraid the error you posted is about the most general Bad Thing(TM) that can happen to Windows, according to the documentation:

"0x0000000D - An exception not covered by some other exception; a protection fault that pertains to access violations for applications"

All I can say is that no application itself should ever be able to cause this; it's up to drivers and other kernel-mode code to do it instead - so make sure you have the latest drivers for your hardware installed, uninstall any unneccessary utilities that run in the background (which might have installed additional drivers) and/or reinstall Windows.

DjNDB;223857 said:

Nothing has changed there either. That's strange. Normally there's a lot of entries like these too[...]

Those are .NET assemblies that allow you to use Direct3D from .NET code - if he doesn't have a reasonably new version of the .NET framework installed I doubt those would get installed.

But the full DirectX installer seemingly not updating components is rather fishy... I'd really recommend a Windows reinstall in such a case...